Google Fixes Nearly 20 Bugs in Chrome 33

Google has fixed 19 security flaws in its Chrome browser, including more than a dozen high-risk bugs. The company paid out $3,500 in rewards to security researchers who reported flaws.

Two of the high-risk vulnerabilities fixed in Chrome 33 are use-after-free flaws, one in SVG images and the other in speech recognition. There’s also a heap buffer overflow in the software rendering. The full list of flaws that earned rewards from Google:

In addition to the bugs found by external researchers, Google’s internal security team also found a large number of bugs that were fixed in this release. Google’s researchers found 11 high-risk bugs and four medium-risk vulnerabilities.

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Dennis Fisher is a journalist with more than 13 years of experience covering information security.

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